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DEVICE FOR-GONVERTING MOTION. l

PatentedJuly 26,1881..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEI-ICEo CHARLES A. RENTzEN, PETER NISSEN, ANDRoDvAR REESUM, oE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; vSAID NISSEN AND REESUM ASSICNORSTo SAID RENrzEN.

DEVI-CE FOR CONVERTING MOTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,729, dated July-26, 1881. Application filed J une 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: y Be it known that we, CHARLES A. BENT- ZEN,ot' the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, PETERNISSEN, a sub- 5 ject of King Villiain, the emperor of the GermanEmpire, but residing in the said city, county, and State, andBODVAR'REFSUM, a subjectof King Oscar, of Norway and Sweden, butresiding in the said city ot' Chicago, county 1o ot' Cook, and State otlIllinois, as aforesaid, have invented certain 'Improvements inMechanical Devices for Converting Motion, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of our invention is to provide a 15 mechanical device bymeans of which a horizontal shaft may be made to convert its rotarymotion into reciprocating vertical motion in a vertical shaft and intoreciprocating horizontal circular motion in another vertical shaft, 2`oboth shafts delivering their respectivemotions to the same machine; andour said device is designed especially to operate a washing-machine likethe one described and claimed in the Letters Patent of the United Statesissued 2 5 to Charles A. Bentzen, dated March 22, 1881. We haveaccomplished our said object by means of the parts and combinationsofparts hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings,in which- 3o Figure 1 represents a central vertical Section made throughsome of the parts of they device, and the rubbing and agitating deviceof a washing-machine in connection therewith;

Fig. 2, a plan of the device; Fig. 3, a perspec- 3 5 tive in detail ot'the fast grooved wheel F and a vertical shaft, c; and Fig. 4, a frontface view, in detail, of the toothed sector E'.

A indicates the top ot' the box ot' washin gmachine; c o', two uprightstandards upon Ao the same 5 e, a horizontal shaft, to which rotaryInotion may be imparted in any suitable manner, and it is furnished withbearings lin the standards; and upon theinner end of the shaft isfastened the wheel F, eccentrically, as

4 5 shown, and that wheel has a groove in the periphery for thereception of the ring of the upper end of the shaft c', so that whenshaft e revolves the wheel F will revolve, and, by means ofitsveccentricity uponV the shaft, the

5o 'shaft c' will reciprocate vertically, and impart that motion tothedisk C, furnished with rubber c, designed to rub and agitato clothing tobe washed.

On the outer face of wheel F projects the wrist or wrist-pin f. 'lhiswrist is designed 55 to work in slot S in theA toothed sector E', whichis pivoted to its-standard I-upon the top of A, (the box,) and-isprovided. on the lower edge ot' its face with bevel-gear, as shown, tomesh with the bevel-gear D, which 6o is securely fastened upon the upperend of hollow shaft d, the/lower end of which extends through and belowthe top A and encircles shaft c', and is there provided with a iiange,d', from which extend downward two guide-rods, 6 5' o2 c2, through holesin the disk C,so that when the disk is drawn up they enter into theinteriors of two of the rubbers c c.

In Fig. l the toothed sector is shown in a vertical position, the wristf in the sume ver- 7o tical line with shaft e, and the shaft c' in itslowest position. Now, when the shaft c is turned either to the right orto the left, Vthe shaft c and disk C are raised, and thewrist f in slotS of the toothed sector E', in passing 75 down, forces the sectorsidewise, and it revolves bevel-Wheel D and its shaft d, and with itdisk C, and thus by revolving Shaft e the shaft c is made to reciprocatevertically and the shaft d to reciprocate horizontally, and our '8oobject is accomplished.

The device hereinbefore described is animprovement upon the onedescribed and claimed in the Letters Patent of the United States for amechanical device issued to the said C. A. 8 5 Bentzen, bearing date the11th day of January, 1881.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

' The wheel F, xed upon shaft e eccentric- 9o ally, and provided withwrist f and ring-shaft c', incombination with toothed sector E', havingslot S and bevel-gear to mesh with bevelwheel D, and adapted to changerotary motion in the shafteinto vertical reciprocating motion 95 inshaft c' and reciprocating horizontal motion in shaft d and deliver suchmotions to the same machine, substantially as described.

CHARLES A. BENTZEN. PETER NISSEN.- BODVAR REFSUM.

Witnesses D. W. MANTADC, J. G. HUszAeH.

